Sheffield.gov.uk - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
65% 
Page structure
81% 
Link structure
93% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.12 s
File size
149.80 kB
Words
408
Media files
3
Number of links
49 internal / 7 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Homepage | Sheffield City Council
The length of the page title is perfect. (304 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The meta description is missing.
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
GeneratorDrupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
MobileOptimizedwidth
HandheldFriendlytrue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
msapplication-config/themes/custom/localgov_sheffield/assets/images/favicons/browserconfig.xml
msapplication-TileColor#1b4a60
theme-color#1b4a60
langen
charsetutf-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are only 408 words on this page. Good pages should have about 800 words of useful content.
The average number of words per sentence of 26.4 words is high.
30.1% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
5 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 8 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...lic/2025-02/pittsburgh.jpg?itok=8GmHk-WaCllr Hunt and Kate Josephs - Pittsburgh
...5-02/harrison_spring_2.jpg?itok=IBvf7UsWAn aerial photograph showing an area of woodland that has been cleared
...tagram-image-sheffield.jpg?itok=nS674rysThe Sheffield city centre skyline at night

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
For you and your city
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
There are 32 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 For you and your city
H2 Header menu
H2 Find services
H2 Search this site
H2 Popular on Sheffield.gov.uk
H2 Find services Duplicate text
H2 Other services
H2 Help with the cost of living
H2 Family Hubs
H2 Fostering
H2 News
H2 Is this page helpful?
H2 Contact us
H2 Useful links
H2 Footer bottom menu
H3 Sheffield's Clean Air Zone
H3 Pay Council Tax
H3 Pay a Penalty Charge Notice
H3 Apply for the Household Support Fund
H3 Household recycling centres
H3 Check rent balance
H3 Council Tax
H3 Schools and childcare
H3 Parking
H3 Council housing
H3 Planning and development
H3 Bins, waste and recycling
H3 Libraries and archives
H3 Births, deaths and marriages
H3 Economic growth and boosting Sheffield’s global reputation to be prioritised in new international plan
H3 Fine for Sheffield man after removing protected trees from Ancient Woodland
H3 Inspectors deliver positive initial findings on Sheffield’s Local Plan
Some internal link anchor texts are too long.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 7 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/Anchor Skip to main content
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/No Text
/businessBusiness
/job-vacanciesJobs
/your-city-councilYour City Council
/council-taxCouncil Tax
/benefitsBenefits
/bins-recycling-servicesBins and Recycling
/parkingParking
/planning-developmentPlanning and Development
/schools-childcareSchools and Childcare
/births-deaths-marriagesBirths, Deaths, Marriages and Citizenship
/cost-of-livingCost of Living
/council-housingCouncil Housing
/disability-mental-healthDisability and Mental Health
/housingHousing
/libraries-archivesLibraries and Archives
/business/licences-permits-reg...Licensing
/parks-sport-recreationParks, Sport and Recreation
/pollution-nuisancePollution and Nuisance
/public-healthPublic Health
/roads-pavementsRoads and Pavements
/travel-transportTravel and Transport
/clean-air-zone-sheffieldSheffield's Clean Air Zone
/council-tax/pay-council-taxPay Council Tax
/parking/pay-penalty-charge-no...Pay a Penalty Charge Notice
/cost-of-living/apply-househol...Apply for the Household Support Fund
/bins-recycling-services/house...Household recycling centres
/council-housing/check-my-rent...Check rent balance
/council-taxText duplicate Council Tax
/schools-childcareSchools and childcare
/parkingText duplicate Parking
/council-housingCouncil housing
/planning-developmentPlanning and development
/bins-recycling-servicesBins, waste and recycling
/libraries-archivesLibraries and archives
/births-deaths-marriagesBirths, deaths and marriages
/other-servicesOther services
/cost-of-livingExplore cost of living support
/schools-childcare/family-hubsAbout Family Hubs
/social-care/children/find-out...Find out about fostering
/news/2025/economic-growth-and...Image Economic growth and boosting Sheffield’s global reputation to be prioritised in new international plan Economic growth, attracting international invest...
IMG-ALT Cllr Hunt and Kate Josephs - Pittsburgh
/news/2025/fine-sheffield-man-...Image Fine for Sheffield man after removing protected trees from Ancient Woodland A Sheffield man has been handed a fine of more than £65,000 after he admitt...
IMG-ALT An aerial photograph showing an area of woodland that has been cleared
/news/2025/inspectors-deliver-...Image Inspectors deliver positive initial findings on Sheffield’s Local Plan Sheffield’s ambitious Local Plan, our vision that will shape how the city grows ...
IMG-ALT The Sheffield city centre skyline at night
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/newsSee all news
/your-city-council/contact-usHow to contact us
https://x.com/sheffcouncilExternal A-TITLE Find us on X
https://www.facebook.com/Sheff...External Subdomain A-TITLE Find us on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/shef...External Subdomain A-TITLE Find us on Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/user/S...External Subdomain A-TITLE Find us on YouTube
https://www.welcometosheffield...External Subdomain Events
https://haveyoursay.sheffield....External Subdomain Consultations
https://advertising.sheffield....External Subdomain Advertising and sponsorship
/utilities/footer-links/privac...Privacy notice
/utilities/footer-links/cookie...Use of cookies
/utilities/footer-links/access...Accessibility statement

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.12 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (150 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
dateMon, 24 Feb 2025 02:50:39 GMT
servernginx
cache-controlmax-age=1800, public
x-drupal-dynamic-cacheMISS
content-languageen
expiresSun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modifiedSun, 23 Feb 2025 06:36:38 GMT
x-drupal-cacheHIT
x-frame-optionsSAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-optionsnosniff
x-xss-protection1; mode=block
strict-transport-securitymax-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload
permissions-policyinterest-cohort=()
content-encodinggzip
etagW/"1740292598"
varyAccept-Encoding,Cookie
x-cacheHit from cloudfront
via1.1 0d3372129d548b57c62777e24b79e514.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-popAMS58-P5
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age53
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 6,026 referring domains.
This page has 332,211 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 2,168 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

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# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

# Custom paths for Sheffield CC.
Disallow: /utilities/
Disallow: /content/sheffield/utilities/
Disallow: /form/
Disallow: /content/forms/
Disallow: /content/dam/
Disallow: /dam/
Disallow: /covid-19
Disallow: /covid19
Disallow: /hr-faq-covid19
Disallow: /utilities/coronavirus-covid-19.html

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Homepage | Sheffield City Council

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City Council60%Check
boosting Sheffield55%Check
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Council Tax48%Check
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